Urban Public Transport

Specific ETF activities on urban public passenger transport started in 2000 with the European Commission's proposal for a Regulation on Public Service Obligations in Passenger Transport, which introduced obligatory competitive tendering of all public passenger transport services which were publicly funded or benefit from exclusive rights. The ETF Sections involved - road and rail - concluded the following principles, which have laid the framework for ETF work ever since: Public authorities must be able to decide independently on how to organise public passenger transport; Where public passenger transport is subject to competitive tender, the authorities have to apply quality criteria including social criteria: Public transport workers must be fully protected in the case of change of transport operator.

News online

24 Jan 2012
Transport Trade Unions taking the lead for a sustainable sector
Almost 170 transport trade unionists from 30 different countries attended the Transunion Final Conference taking place on 19 and 20 January in the International Trade Union House in Brussels. The conference, organised in the framework of the...

11 Jul 2011
Transunion Women Seminar II further improves the ETF Gender Training Package
The ‘empowerment’ module of the future ETF Gender Training Package was tested in Zagreb, at the second workshop organised on 7 and 8 July 2011 within the framework of the TRANSUNION project. This time women union representatives from the Southern...

Press releases

23 Jun 2011
Celebrating World Public Services Day
Time to put the heart back into Europe (Brussels 23 June 2011) On the occasion of World Public Services day, the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), the European Trade Union...

04 May 2006
European Action Day of Public Transport Workers, 5 May 2006
The European Transport Workers’ Federation calls for a European Action Day for public transport on 5 May 2006. In 12 EU Member States, public transport trade unions will inform bus, tram, metro and railway workers as well as the users of public...